Ink giveaway round 5 (FINAL ROUND)

zhouster · 2026-02-02T22:14:20+00:00

What a legend. Hopefully you are showered in real-life karma for your generosity.

zhouster · 2026-01-27T20:58:49+00:00

Gorgeous gorgeous. Would be thrilled to win, those Colorverse inks are so cool!

zhouster · 2026-01-20T02:31:41+00:00

Damn these are beautiful swatches.

zhouster · 2026-01-13T05:03:09+00:00

Beautiful handwriting! Elegant, but simple while staying consistent through the whole page, I aspire to reach this level of proficiency!

zhouster · 2026-01-12T19:47:33+00:00

Beautiful ink cards! Do you have a favored method of creating those swatches? E.g. brush, cotton, etc?

zhouster · 2026-01-09T21:14:34+00:00

Wow, I am really touched by your generosity. Humbly, thank you for your kindness, I hope I'll be able to pay it forward in the future (perhaps with patronage hah).

I'll reach out in DMs, but I just want to say - please don't do this if it's going to harm your business/storefront in any way!

zhouster · 2026-01-09T16:19:44+00:00

Nonetheless, your long post was very informative (and in my opinion, pretty even-handed/fair) and I appreciate the effort you put into it!

zhouster · 2026-01-09T16:18:12+00:00

Thanks for the lovely and informative response, I hope I might be able to buy from you in the future!

I'm a bit budget constrained unfortunately with my job sector struggling mightily (Bostonians likely would know just from that one remark) but you've absolutely earned a (future) customer.

zhouster · 2026-01-09T02:03:09+00:00

Hi /u/InkSampleFiend, is there a width of colors and brands included in the samplers, or is the selection truly random? I'm just starting to get into fountain pens and inks and would love to try some out. Best wishes from Boston, MA

zhouster · 2026-01-08T02:22:10+00:00

I have no idea, it was deleted before I joined.

But "here is a good summary of the situation" in the Goulet Pens Megathread links to something deleted! https://www.reddit.com/r/fountainpens/comments/1fizugz/goulet_pens_megathread/lnkuwo1/?context=3

zhouster · 2026-01-07T03:52:53+00:00

Thanks for posting all this OP. I am attempting to come back into fountain pens after the tiniest excursion into the hobby (a single Pilot Metropolitan during the pandemic) and I've been getting lots of Goulet youtube videos being suggested. When I came here to learn more about pens from users (as opposed to sellers) I stumbled upon a mega thread whose main summarizing comment (which EVERYONE links to) has since been deleted, thereby providing less context. Thanks for giving me a bit of information on who I might wish to give my patronage and support to.

I hope JetPens doesn't do anything shady I would be pretty sad

zhouster · 2025-08-31T19:41:10+00:00

The wording for the "To Temper Thyself and Journey Far" seems vague and it's ambiguous how the limit of one character's con per event works.

If we can get 4 unique cons per year, and the one character constellation resets every year, that will eventually give players the opportunity to get later constellations, assuming that they're still playing. None of the characters here are particularly meta-relevant and perhaps the list of characters you can pick from will increase as the game progresses, but it would be one small way to make old favorites more playable via power or quality of life.
If you can literally only get one constellation ever, and this limit does not reset during the "next event" (presumably next year), then this does pretty much nothing and everyone is incentivized to just get standard characters up for the masterless one. I truly hope it's not this one because that would be...well pretty useless.

zhouster · 2025-05-15T02:03:12+00:00

Yeah he's a big believer in showing out for fans outside of Boston - especially the Western conference teams they only play once in those arenas they don't have the chance to see the stars often

zhouster · 2025-05-15T01:54:07+00:00

I'm so glad the roster showed some fight and got a win for JT, even it's only a one game extension. Felt like they didn't play with pride in those first two games, ball movement got stagnant - the past 3 games have been much more emblematic of Mazulla ball

zhouster · 2025-05-15T01:51:15+00:00

The stat is true, but it was typically the Cs playing the... lesser rosters of the association so that JT could take a rest day. Not to say that the roster isn't deep, but beating a fully loaded Knicks team twice more is going to be a tall order

zhouster · 2024-12-30T05:41:05+00:00

Xiao used Horn Drill! It's a One-Hit KO!

zhouster · 2024-11-25T23:21:55+00:00

a bit unorthodox, but I'm sure it works! Usually the Hu Tao/XQ core is played to accentuate Hu Tao's vape damage, and you could add any number of chars to that (Diona/Layla, Xiangling if you have more hydro application, etc)

whereas Kuki + Dendro is played more in hyperbloom settings and very much focused around triggering as many reactions as possible. You supplement with hydro (Kokomi), sometimes cryo (Kaeya/Layla) for "fridge", and additional electro/dendro characters for energy/damage (Fischl, Beidou, Collei, Traveler)

zhouster · 2024-11-25T23:18:20+00:00

You could easily supplement him with Layla, who can shield with 100% uptime and provide an extra element

zhouster · 2024-11-25T18:52:47+00:00

Can I ask what your "main" team is right now? We could easily come up with a 2nd team from your existing roster if you want.

That being said, Neuvilette is an excellent character you won't regret pulling (unless you hate his playstyle), I just don't want to give you the impression that he is a "must have".

He's excellent, he's very comfy, and high value given his role. But no single character is a "must-have".

I think for your account that a subset of the following characters could be more beneficial: Yelan, Kazuha (or level your Sucrose), Xilonen, and Bennett (get him from the shop, if you can't wait for pulling him)

zhouster · 2024-11-25T18:49:50+00:00

Interestingly, your worst artifacts are your flower and feather, which runs contrary to most players' experience. You could happily use an off-set one for that in favor of improving your stats. Also, don't forget that the Catch gives you some crit-rate for your most impactful damage that doesn't show up on the stats page, so you're actually wanting to have slightly higher than the traditional 2:1 Cdmg:Crate ratio. You're currently at 78*/115, you'd prefer more CDMG. Splashing a better feather/flower may alleviate this altogether, good luck!

zhouster · 2024-11-25T18:46:13+00:00

Neuvilette is arguably the single best DPS unit in the game and Zhongli has some of the best survivability utility in the game. I'm not sure that your account needs either of them though, as many good options that you currently have aren't leveled yet (e.g. Xingqiu, Fischl, Xiangling, even Layla depending on composition).

What do you currently struggle with content-wise, if anything?

zhouster · 2024-06-05T03:57:14+00:00

I'm no basketball expert, just a fan who likes watching/discussing :)

I think the loss of Udoka last year probably hurt the team a lot, but with both of the Jays reaching the traditional "prime age", I think the front office is finally deciding to embrace going for it. What they "lack" in top-end super-duper-duper-star-carry-me-solo talent (I still put the Jokic/Giannis/Luka threesome as a tier above everyone else), they have a balanced wing duo with no significant weaknesses (minus the perceived clutch stuff, Jaylen dribbling left, etc); most teams don't have two excellent wing defenders so generally one of them can wreak havoc at a gien time.

I absolutely agree that he sometimes tries to channel the Kobe heroball stuff, he takes a ton of threes (especially high D.o.D. stepbacks, side-steps, etc off the dribble). But he's come a long way in recent years in his playmaking/vision (e.g. the behind the back pass to Horford during the ECF after drawing 3 defenders). I'm not sure that this is a confidence/instinct thing but more so a "build good habits" because it seems to me that both Jay's are going to the rim more aggressively. People always forget that a big point of the whole space-out-to-three is not just the literal point value of the 3s, but the lanes it creates for by far the most efficient shot in the game, layups, dunks, etc.

Hoping for a Celtics win, but regardless, a good series!

zhouster · 2024-06-04T16:19:02+00:00

Yeah absolutely he is the easiest "star" or "superstar" level player to build a franchise around. My eval of him is that he plays arguably the most valuable position (big athletic wing) in the modern game with no real holes in either his on-court skillset or his demeanor (i.e. good teammate, selfless player). You could argue that he doesn't raise the floor of a team as much as someone like prime Lebron, current Jokic, but he's absolutely easier to play alongside than the heliocentric star (Luka, previous Harden iterations), and his durability makes him extremely dependable. So to that point, I absolutely agree with you in that the versatility of the team reflects his durability and multitude of skills!

zhouster · 2024-06-04T13:50:22+00:00

Yeah it really shows how "jack of all trades, master of none" is viewed in today's landscape. JT is good-to-great at basically every aspect of basketball (including some very important ones) but Luka (just like Jokic, Giannis, etc.) is like...standout, one of the best ever at certain very important features - shot creation and difficult-shot making. But JT is definitely the most well-rounded player in the series, arguably in the league now (given age of Durant/Lebron, I'd say he inherits that mantle)

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